2024
Indonesia’s humble little neighbourhood coffee shop [warkop] – a place for men to gather and fraternise – is reinterpreted through the rose-tinted eyes of a cheeky little transnational princess.
She imagines the space and all its paraphernalia as a ladies’ tea party. Or, in this case, a coffee party.
Image taken by Levent Can Kaya
Sachet and Icon Tiles
Streams of sachets hang above the warkop counter; different flavours of 3-in-1 coffee, ready to mix fruit drinks to be blended into icy smoothies and little pockets of sweetness in the form of condensed milk.
Reimagined as peranakan tiles, they would once again adorn the walls of the princess' warkop.
Starfruit Juice
'Carrebian' Nut
Cookies and Cream
Baby Lemon Dragon
Kopi~O
Emu Jago
Fireship
Lychee Juice
Luwak
Durian Juice
Choccy biccy
Pineapple Juice
Thick and Sweet Chocolate
Namesake Biccy
Thick and Sweet
Tableware
Longevity pot
2025
Glazed ceramic
9.5 x 9.5 x 6.5cm
Chocolate kerupuk bowl
2025
Glazed ceramic
14 x 14 x 5.5cm
Stinks of more than durian ashtray
2025
Glazed ceramics & incense
15 x 15 x 5.5cm
Emu jago [kopi~o]
2025
Glazed ceramic
12.5 x 8 x 8cm
Little princess schooner
2025
Glazed ceramic
11 x 7.5 x 8.5cm
Kopi tubruk
2025
Glazed ceramic
[cup] 8 x 8 x 11cm
[saucer] 14.5 x 14.5 x 4.5cm
Coffee drunk with its grounds and all
Grounds are steeped in a fluted glass before adding condensed milk and stirring. A saucer or shallow bowl is then placed on top of the glass and flipped. As the grounds float up, you tentatively tip the glass to let the coffee flow into the saucer where it is then sipped from.
Shown in:
"Matterhood", Kudos Offsite at Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney, NSW (2025) [group exhibition]
"Leftovers", Goodspace Gallery, curated by Aleena Rizvi, with Debaser, Sydney, NSW (2025) [group exhibition]